In the cloud computing space, one name stands out, well above the rest; Amazon Web Services. Often referred to simply by its initialism, AWS is the software arm of the e-commerce giant that provides the backend infrastructure for pretty much half the online service you've most likely heard of.
Migrating networks and servers to the cloud has become the done thing for small and medium enterprise businesses. It's also AWS that really capitalised on this demand offering things like virtualised desktop workstations, as well as core infrastructure, long before any of its rivals.
